What’s New in 1.1.1 • Cheesepedia is now fully available in German and French. Navigation, cheese descriptions, histories, aromas, textures, culinary uses, wines, recipes, quiz content and notifications have been localized. • AI Wine Scan is now fully available. Scan a wine label to discover its estimated profile, tasting notes, serving guidance and recommended cheese pairings. Wine scan results are automatically saved to your history. • The Daily Cheese Challenge now includes richer story context, knowledge titles and progression levels, plus an improved global leaderboard. You can also review the answer before opening the related cheese details. • Save favorite wines directly from wine cards. • Taste-based cheese discovery is now available to Basic users. • White Stilton has been added as a separate PDO cheese, alongside updated Stilton information and improved cheese images. • This release also includes improvements to notifications, onboarding text, leaderboard layout, localization consistency and Android navigation spacing.

Daily Cheese Challenge with 600 Turkish and English questions, three daily questions, and two Premium bonus questions. Global leaderboard, editable player names, and a daily streak based exclusively on quiz performance. Affineur seal and profile progress card for tracking quiz streaks. AI Wine Scan that identifies a wine profile from its label and provides tasting notes, serving guidance, and cheese pairings. Sommelier pairing workspace with improved wine search, quick cheese selections, and stronger pairing rankings. Unified and saveable history for both cheese and wine analyses. Milk-based personalization that adapts cheese details and recommendations to cow, sheep, goat, or buffalo milk preferences. A milk-preference update prompt for existing users and a refined onboarding experience. Persistent in-app notification inbox, personalized milestone messages, and quiz reminders. Updated navigation with a dedicated Quiz tab, central Encyclopedia access, and clearer cheese and wine scanning options. Gourmet Board now defaults to the user’s profile country and respects wine-content preferences. Updated cheese catalog, improved search scopes, localization refinements, and general interface polish.

Journal notes: Added functionality to add, edit, and delete notes for cheeses in "Want to Try" and "Tried" lists. Journal shortcuts: Added direct navigation from cheese details to "Want to Try" and "Tried" lists. Cheese detail "Read More": Improved handling of long descriptions, chips, and culinary list sections. Added cheese name copying in cheese details. Switched personal recommendations on the Home screen from daily updates to fixed weekly recommendations. Added taste match filters and quick-filter chips to the Encyclopedia. Improved recommendation sorting: now works in search, utilizes raw match scores, and prioritizes taste compatibility over favorites. Unified match scoring with v3; preserved structural twin cheese matches. Refined just-in-time onboarding hints and copy: added guiding tips for features like scan results, history, journal notes, and AI Recipes. Added milk preference tracking to onboarding. Lifecycle in-app messaging: implemented messages triggered by actions such as milestones, badges, onboarding, scanning, boards, recipes, and journal entries. Lifecycle notification planner v2: routes follow-up and lifecycle recommendation notifications to the Encyclopedia at appropriate times. Transitioned the badge system from flat, one-time badges to tiered progression tracks (e.g., bronze → emerald progression), including daily streaks. Added notification logic for unlocking wine, recipe, and streak badges. Improved badge progress displays, metallic styling, and profile analysis visuals. Added a premium match score overlay and refined the premium match badge copy. Removed ads; clarified the premium access and usage limit model. Implemented a tiered usage quota model: weekly for guests, daily for basic users, and unlimited for premium users. Added a restriction preventing guests from saving AI Recipes; guests are directed to the account sign-up screen. Unified and softened limit messages for Gourmet Boards and AI Recipes. Added backend support for founding member promo grants and the mobile premium promo experience. Wine pairing engine enhanced: classic pairings, tiered boosts, origin/terroir scoring, and refined flavor rules. Context added for Gourmet Board composition; cheese and accompaniment counts are now more controlled. Automatic scroll to the results area after the Gourmet Board is generated. UI/copy refinements: Sommelier tab renaming, Discover section title/icons, AI Recipe copy, and recipe hint text. Data and polish fixes: Croatia flag mapping, Turkey map region corrections, and wine category colors in favorites. Crash fix: Resolved a crash occurring when guest/basic users scanned a cheese not found in the database.

Key feature list updates for version 1.0.8: Added a "Recommended for you" sorting option to the encyclopedia. Cheeses are sorted based on the user's taste profile, favorites are pinned to the top, and an explanatory notice is displayed. Added just-in-time onboarding hints. Contextual hints, inline cards, and bottom sheet flows have been implemented for the camera, encyclopedia, cheese details, gourmet board, journal, map, profile, and recommendations screens. Expanded the Cheese Journal: includes taste experience events, "want to try" / "tried" lists, a journal action sheet, quick profile access, and improvements to country filters and list actions. On the AI ​​Recipe screen, the UI now supports a cheese recommendation flow if the cheese field is left blank. Pairing reasons are now displayed on the Gourmet Board screen. Switched from a rewarded unlock flow to an interstitial ad model; added feature-specific interstitial displays during AI requests. Product identifiers are now hidden on the subscription screen. Added a new recipe: Mascarpone berry dessert. Backend improvements include Gourmet Board sommelier rules, budget-friendly platter filters, an AI recipe recommendation mode, and premium scan fallback enhancements. Remote recipe addition infrastructure: Existing local recipes are preserved; new recipes can be fetched from the backend as "remote additions." The mobile app validates and appends these to local recipes without overwriting local IDs. Offline scan error screen: Displays a clear connection error instead of misleading messages (like "cheese not found") when there is no internet or a timeout occurs. Home screen action card polish: Scan, AI Recipe, and Gourmet Board cards have been improved with updated visuals/backgrounds and a more compact layout. Commit: 8265e5f. Wine country label fixes: Missing wine origin country labels were added, and TR/EN localization was completed, particularly for Hungary and South Africa. Recipe cheese filter fix: When a recipe lists combined cheeses (e.g., "Cheddar, Monterey Jack"), the filter now displays individual cheese names instead of a single combined option. Wine search improvement: Added search functionality that is compatible with non-accented/Turkish characters and supports partial matches and typos (e.g., okuzgozu, bogazkere, calkarasi, Bousc, Malbeg). Accent normalization for cheese search: Searches now handle accent variations correctly across the encyclopedia, cheese comparison, and CheeseDataService (e.g., Comte -> Comté, Gruyere -> Gruyère, Bergkase/Bergkaese -> Bergkäse). Onboarding hint copy and contrast improvements: Refined the text for just-in-time onboarding hints and improved readability and contrast, especially on the camera screen.

Fixed the iOS rewarded AdMob unit by updating it to the correct rewarded ad unit ID Improved the Gourmet Board result header layout so the title, Gemini attribution, and pairing summary use the full available width. Improved taste onboarding with more familiar starter cheese lists. Turkish users now see popular cheeses from Turkey first. Other users see globally popular cheeses first. Search remains available for discovering any cheese in the full catalog.

Updated marketing and privacy policy links to use our official cheesepedia.app domain. This version also includes iOS build compatibility updates for the latest App Store submission requirements.